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View Etruscan Studies, Volumes 1-19.1 ETRUSCAN STUDIES Journal of the Etruscan Foundation ISBN, ISSN and eISSN Number Designations & TABLE OF CONTENTS for VOLUMES 1 – 19.1 ETRUSCAN STUDIES: Journal of the Etruscan Foundation VOLUME 1 – 1994 Paper - 160 pages ISBN: 978-0-8143-2474-6 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1 of 1 EDITORIAL REMARKS Foreword by Jane K. Whitehead………………………………………………………………………………………………iii NEWS AND REVIEWS Recent Publications in Etruscan Studies by Larissa Bonfante…………………………………………………………………………………………………1 ARTICLES Gods and places in Etruscan Religion by Ingrid E.M. Edlund-Berry………………………………………………………………………………………11 Celtomachia: The Representation of Battles with Gauls on Etruscan Funerary Urns by Peter J. Holiday…………………………………………………………………………………………………23 The Necropoleis of Satricum, Italy, 800 – 300 B.C.: Biological Evidence for Cultural Continuities During a Period of Political Change by Marshall J. Becker……………………………………………………………………………………………...46 Sea People in Etruria? Italian Contacts with the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age by Robert H. Tykot…………………………………………………………………………………………………59 REPORTS FROM THE FIELD Excavations at Cetamura del Chianti, 1987 – 1991 by Nancy T. de Grummond, Patrick Rowe, Rochelle Marrinan, and Glen H. Doran……………………………..84 Appendix: The Geology and Hydrology of Cetamura del Chianti by J.K. Osmond…………………………………………………………………………………………………...116 Survey and Excavations of the Etruscan Foundation, 1989 – 1991: La Piana, Mocali, and Ripstena by Jane K. Whitehead……………………………………………………………………………………………..123 ETRUSCAN STUDIES: Journal of the Etruscan Foundation VOLUME 2 - 1995 Paper - 159 pages ISBN: 978-0-8143-2475-4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1 of 1 EDITORIAL REMARKS Foreword by Jane K. Whitehead………………………………………………………………………………………………iii NEWS AND REVIEWS Museum News and Reviews by Larissa Bonfante and Nancy T. de Grummond…………………………………………………………………..1 Review of J.G. Szilágyi and J. Bouzek, Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum, Hongrie. Tchécoslovaquie. by Helen Nagy……………………………………………………………………………………………………….7 Short book reviews by Larissa Bonfante………………………………………………………………………………………………...13 ARTICLES The Etruscan Wolfman in Myth and Ritual by John Elliott……………………………………………………………………………………………………...17 TRANSLATIONS Discourse on Method: A Contribution to the Problem of Classifying Later Etruscan Mirrors by János György Szilágyi…………………………………………………………………………………………..35 Funerary Architecture in Chiusi by Stephan Steingräber…………………………………………………………………………………………….53 Shipwreck at Baratti by the Soprintendenza Archeologica Toscana……………………………………………………………………..85 Cortona of the Principes by M. Torcellan Vallone………………………………………………………………………………………….109 REPORTS FROM THE FIELD Defining an Economic Area of the Hellenistic Period Inland Northern Etruria: The excavation of a fortified hilltop village at Poggio la Croce in Radda in Chianti-Siena by Marzio Cresci and Luca Viviani………………………………………………………………………………141 Errat and Paralipomena…………………………………………………………………………………………..159 ETRUSCAN STUDIES: Journal of the Etruscan Foundation VOLUME 3 - 1996 Paper - 170 pages ISBN: 978-0-8143-2670-6 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1 of 1 EDITORIAL REMARKS Foreword by Jane K. Whitehead………………………………………………………………………………………………iii NEWS AND REVIEWS Short Book Reviews………………………………………………………………………………………………...1 Etruscan Inscriptions………………………………………………………………………………………………..2 Museum News………………………………………………………………………………………………………4 News………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...6 ARTICLES FROM THE COLLOQUIUM Towards a Definition of Etruscan Humor by Jane K. Whitehead……………………………………………………………………………………………….9 The Delivery of Helen’s Egg: An Examination of an Etruscan Relief Mirror by Alexandra Carpino……………………………………………………………………………………………...33 Laris Pulenas and Sisyphus: Mortals, Heroes, and Demons in the Etruscan Underworld by Frencesco Roncalli……………………………………………………………………………………………...45 Gender Identification in the Archaeological Record: Revising our Stereotypes by Birgitte Ginge…………………………………………………………………………………………………...65 New Discoveries and Research in the Field of Southern Etruscan Rock Tombs by Stephan Steingräber…………………………………………………………………………………………….75 New Researches at La Piana, 1991-95 by Jane K. Whitehead……………………………………………………………………………………………..105 Comments to Panel by Larissa Bonfante……………………………………………………………………………………………….147 PAPERS FROM THE WORKSHOP Summaries of Papers Presented by Carol Gove and Jane K. Whitehead…………………………………………………………………………...159 Potential of Mitochondrial DNA for Providing Insights into the Origins of the Etruscans by C.E. Jackson, F.H. Cinelli, D.C. Wallace, and A. Torroni……………………………………………………165 ETRUSCAN STUDIES: Journal of the Etruscan Foundation VOLUME 4 - 1997 Paper - 186 pages ISBN: 978-0-8143-2748-7 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1 of 1 EDITORIAL REMARKS Foreword by Jane K. Whitehead………………………………………………………………………………………………iii NEWS AND REVIEWS News and Reviews by Larissa Bonfante……………………………………………………………………………………………………...1 “The Etruscans Revisited: a Symposium”………..……………………………………………………………………...9 Poggio Civitate: a Turning Point by Nancy T. de Grummond……………………………………………………………………………………………..23 THE POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF DNA STUDIES REGARDING THE ORIGINS OF THE ETRUSCANS Introduction by Jane K. Whitehead………………………………………………………………………………………………41 On Etruscan origins, again by Giovannangelo Camporeale…………………………………………………………………………………….45 A View of European populations by Lucca Cavalli-Sforza……………………………………………………………………………………………53 Looking for Etruscan genetic traces in Tuscany by Alberto Piazza et al……………………………………………………………………………………………...65 The Anthropological Study of Etruscan populations by Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi et al……………………………………………………………………………………...73 Biological relationships of Etruscan-culture communities by Alfredo Coppa et al……………………………………………………………………………………………...87 Mitochondrial DNA variability in Tuscany by Paolo Francalacci……………………………………………………………………………………………..103 Mitochondrial DNA variation in other populations by Antonio Torroni………………………………………………………………………………………………..121 Analysis of ancient DNA for human sex determination by Cristiano Vernesi et al…………………………………………………………………………………………137 REPORTS FROM THE FIELD Excavations at Mezzomiglio Locality, Chianciano Terme by David Soren……………………………………………………………………………………………………145 Excavations at Poggio Colla (Vicchio) 1995-96 by P. Gregory Warden and Susan Kane………………………………………………………………………….159 ETRUSCAN STUDIES: Journal of the Etruscan Foundation VOLUME 5 - 1998 Paper - 127 pages ISBN: 978-0-8143-2839-3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1 of 1 EDITORIAL REMARKS Foreword by Jane K. Whitehead………………………………………………………………………………………………iii NEWS AND REVIEWS Museum News by Larissa Bonfante…………………………………………………………………………………………………1 The Origins of Cannibalism in Dante by Giuliano Bonfante………………………………………………………………………………………………..3 Short Reviews by Larissa Bonfante…………………………………………………………………………………………………7 Medicine in the Etruscan World by Harold M. Jones, M.D…………………………………………………………………………………………..13 Review Article: THE DANCING COLUMN by Ingrid E.M. Edlund-Berry..................................................................................................................................17 COLLOQUIUM ON ETRUSCAN BRONZES IN HONOR OF EMELINE RICHARDSON Introduction by Larissa Bonfante………………………………………………………………………………………………..21 The Eel Carriers by Emeline Richardson…………………………………………………………………………………………….25 The Etruscan Rhadamanthys? by Richard De Puma……………………………………………………………………………………………….37 Etruscan and Italic Bronzes in the Hilprecht Collection, Philadelphia by P. Gregory Warden……………………………………………………………………………………………..53 A Bronze Head of a Youth from Poggio Colla (Vicchio), Tuscany by Susan Kane, P. Gregory Warden, and N. Griffiths……………………………………………………………..63 Banqueting Bronzes a Spina: The Archaeological Contex by Eric Hostetter…………………………………………………………………………………………………...69 Bronze Production at Poggio Civitate (Murlo) by Erik Nielsen……………………………………………………………………………………………………..95 Further Studies of Metals and Motifs on Etruscan Mirrors by Ingela Wiman………………………………………………………………………………………………….109 ETRUSCAN STUDIES: Journal of the Etruscan Foundation VOLUME 6 – 1999 Cloth - 184 pages ISBN: 978-0-9819692-6-8 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1 of 2 EDITORIAL REMARKS Foreword by Jane K. Whitehead………………………………………………………………………………………………iii NEWS AND REVIEWS MUSEUM NEWS Ancient Sculptures in a Modern Setting by Larissa Bonfante…………………………………………………………………………………………………1 Etruscan Exhibits: L’Ombra della Sera by Mark Benford…………………………………………………………………………………………………….2 BOOK AND VIDEO REVIEWS Short Reviews by Larissa Bonfante…………………………………………………………………………………………………5 Note on the Margin of a Recent Book: Calaina by Giuliano Bonfante………………………………………………………………………………………………..8 Etruscans in the Landscape by Jane K. Whitehead………………………………………………………………………………………………10 Satricum Ridge-Pole Statues by Danielle Newland……………………………………………………………………………………………….16 Children of Tarquinia by Larissa Bonfante………………………………………………………………………………………………...20 OBITUARIES Mauro Cristofani: A Very Personal Memory by Fernando Gilotta………………………………………………………………………………………………..25 Ambrose Josef Pfiffig……………………………………………………………………………………………...29 ARTICLES Appointment with an Etruscan Dentist by Gaspare Baggieri……………………………………………………………………………………………….31 The Valsiarosa Gold Dental Appliance: Etruscan Origins for Dental Prostheses by Marshall Joseph Becker………………………………………………………………………………………...43 The Survival of the Etruscan Language by Philip Freeman………………………………………………………………………………………………….75 Orientalizing Period Wing-Handle Cups from Poggio Civitate: Ceramic Traditions and Regional Productions in Inland Etruria
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